A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)

A Good Day To Die Hard Synopsis

When John McClane's son Jack gets into trouble while in Russia, McClane travels to Moscow to help him out, only to get caught up in a terrorist plot involving the circumstances behind his son's arrest.

It’s difficult to quit a cash cow character like McClane, which brings us to A Good Day To Die Hard, the fifth installment in the long-running franchise, which will be back to a hard-R format when A Good Day To Die Hard hits Blu-ray and DVD on June 4.

Maybe it's about time the Die Hard films started looking for a good day to die. Actually, Presidents Day 2013 might be a good choice. The fifth entry in the franchise might have topped the box office this weekend, but given the competition that's not saying much.

Yippee-ki-yay, Mother Russia. For the review segment of this week's Operation Kino we're talking about A Good Day to Die Hard, with special guest Matt Singer of Indiewire's Criticwire blog. We talk about where the movie stands among all the previous Die Hard movies

Critics are being absolutely unmerciful towards the latest installment of the Die Hard franchise, John Moore's A Good Day To Die Hard, but it seems that once again audiences couldn't care less. The midnight numbers for the new action flick are out, and it looks as though the movie is going to have a pretty good Valentine's Day weekend.

In his review, Sean called it "silly, incoherent and cartoonish to a fault." For her part, Kristy's disappointment was so crushing that she had a meltdown only GIFs could properly depict. Yet when it comes to whether we should hope for a Die Hard 6, they found themselves ready to spar in a Great Debate.

I was so excited for the fifth installment of the Die Hard franchise that I pre-offered to pen a piece on why it is the second best of the series, sight unseen. But then I saw it. And...plans changed. I had so many feelings watching the latest adventure of John McClane that there was really only one way to aptly unfold them. And so I present my GIF diary.

If you want to get something promoted in Japan, forget about posters and life-sized cardboard cutouts. What’s the best way you can think of to promote A Good Day to Die Hard? Putting the film’s image on an oily sleeveless wife beater? Releasing a bald plush doll that says “Yippee kay-yay, motherfucker?” (Since the fifth film reverts back to its R-rating and all.) How about just getting Bruce Willis to show up and say a few words about the film?

The Die Hard franchise has always had a checkered past with critics. The first movie is just about as universally beloved as action movies get, but the three sequels that have come out since have always been cause for great debate among film fans. But while all of the movies have their detractors, they all have an almost equal number of supporters. Apparently that will not be the case with A Good Day To Die Hard.

You know who has no trouble getting excited for the new Bruce Willis movie? Key and Peele. Well, more specifically the valet characters that Key and Peele-- one of the most underrated comedy duos working today-- play occasionally. Check out their excitement for all the Die Hard's, starring Urkel's Dad and J.J.'s Dad and Timothy Elephant, in this video below

Jam packed slate of movies this week. There’s a little something for everyone. We’ve got a Nicholas Sparks for the sappy. Animated for the kids. Another supernatural romance for the teeny-bopper crowd and John McClane for all the true blue, red-blooded Americans out there

Bullet to the Head opened to an estimated $4.5 million dollars over the weekend. It ranks as the lowest opening for a wide release in Stallone’s career. Are the days of box-office wine and roses over for the Planet Hollywood crew? Have audiences grown tired of these older men in action-heavy roles?

John McClane doesn't go looking for trouble - trouble just has a way of finding John McClane. Bruce Willis' most iconic character has had to deal with and incredible number of screwed up and impossibly dangerous situations over the years, from running across broken glass barefoot to disabling a bomb with two jugs of water. So it's just a logical step that the latest installment of the Die Hard franchise wouldn't not just take McClane to Russia...

A Good Day to Die Hard reunites McClane with his son, Jack (Jai Courtney) for a mission in Moscow. Young McClane is a covert operative, with “Papa” John arriving in Mother Russia to bail his son out of trouble and possibly prevent a nuclear war between Russia and the rest of the world.

Brace yourself for a movie-marketing tie-in that walks the razor-thin line between movie coverage and blatant commercial propaganda. Mercedes-Benz no doubt paid a lot of money to see their cars get banged around in the latest Die Hard movie, titled A Good Day to Die Hard.

What happened to that guy who said he’d “never go up in a tall building again” after the rooftop explosion in the original film? I guess trouble just keeps finding this now-superhero. A new image has landed, and it seems to show the aftermath of the crashing-helicopter sequence. Peep it right here.

Live Free or Die Hard was a film with many, many problems, but one thing that certainly didn't help was the rating. Unlike every other film in the series, the fourth installment was rated PG-13. For most franchises this wouldn't be a big deal, but Die Hard is one sold on the catch phrase," Yipee-kay Yay, Motherfucker."

No matter how you decide to spend the sappiest and most commercialized holiday this side of Christmas, everyone needs a break from flowers and hearts on Valentine's Day-- and this year, John McClane is coming to rescue you. Bruce Willis is back in character as the New York City cop constantly wandering into trouble in A Good Day To Die Hard

Visiting the movie theater earlier this week for a Christmas showing of Django Unchained, it was impossible not to notice the giant poster with Bruce Willis' face behind the words "Yippee Ki-Yay Mother Russia." John McClane will be back in theaters this February for some Moscow shenanigans. We shared a new TV spot for A Good Day to Die Hard yesterday and today brings another one, which gives a little more attention to John McClane's son Jack, played by Spartacus' Jai Courtney.

Like many movie fans, I closed out my Christmas with a screening of the legendary action film Die Hard. Set during the holiday season, Bruce Willis kicking German terrorist ass has long been a tradition for me and I'm always excited for the opportunity. Sadly the series hasn't been set during Christmas since Die Hard 2: Die Harder.

Like most of the promotional material leading up to this Die Hard film, this new poster doesn’t really tell us anything new about the sequel beyond the fact that Willis has agreed top resume his iconic role for another story, and things are going to get rough.

The fifth installment of this frenetic franchise is a family affair. John McClane travels to Russia, looking to help out his estranged son Jack (Jai Courtney). But when he discovers his boy is a CIA operative working to stop a hijacking of nuclear arms, the two team up to save the day and sparks and bullets fly!

The tagline’s so obvious, you probably would have been annoyed with 20th Century Fox’s marketing department if they’d overlooked it (or chose to go in a different direction). Uber-cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) returns for a fifth Die Hard movie, this time set in Moscow. And so, as we see on the first official poster, we get the slogan, “Yippee Ki-Ya, Mother Russia.”

Bruce Willis may be tearing up the box office right now in an original action film called Looper, but he'll be back not too long from now in a very, very familiar role. Somehow there is a fifth Die Hard movie coming next February, and a teaser for A Good Day To Die Hard has debuted online, showing off Willis back in form as John McClane

We’ve been having such a good time dissecting Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s portrayal of a time-traveling assassin that we forgot he has another chapter of his signature series -- Die Hard -- on the horizon. Hopefully this new photo from A Good Day to Die Hard will get us right back on track.

The Die Hard films comprise one of the best action series of all time and even though the fourth installment, Live Free or Die Hard, doesn't measure up to the standard set by the previous three, the addition of Mary Elizabeth Winstead to the franchise was a more than welcome one.

A big part of what makes John McClane such a great character is the fact that he's always in the wrong place at the wrong time and he's perpetually upset about it. The early films have some of the best action movie one-liners of all time, and even the character's most famous line - "Yippee-Kay Yay, Mother fucker!" - was originally said as a quip in response to being a "cowboy."

What's shown? Well, two orange trucks clear a roadway that’s later used for what looks like a car chase; we get shots of Willis out of the makeup chair, where he has been severely bloodied and bruised; and we see an explosion scene through the eye’s of the director’s monitor, followed by footage of Jai Courtney (playing Willis’ son, Jack McClane), who’s also bloody and badly beaten.

ussian-born model Anne Vyalitsyna has landed her first acting gig and is set to appear alongside Bruce Willis in A Good Day to Die Hard, the fourth sequel in the Die Hard franchise. The movie sees John McClane being forced to fly to Russia in order to help his imprisoned son, Jack, get out of jail. While John is successful in that task, while overseas he discovers a terrorist plot and teams with Jack to stop the threat.

Based on a script by Skip Woods (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and directed by John Moore (Max Payne, Flight of the Phoenix), A Good Day To Die Hard sees our seemingly-invincible hero travel to Russia in order to get his son out of prison. While there, however, McClane uncovers a terrorist plot and, along with his son, he works to stop it before it's too late.

A Good Day To Die Hard is shooting in Russia, with John Moore behind the camera, marking his first directorial effort since 2008's dreadful, dull Max Payne. It's unclear just how much the nation is clamoring for another Die Hard movie, especially after 2007's Live Free or Die Hard

Sebastian Koch and Yulia Snigir have signed on to play villains in A Good Day To Die Hard. Koch, who was born in Germany, has had a long career in German cinema, but is likely best known to American audiences for his role in the Oscar winning The Lives of Others. Snigir, on the other hand, is a relative newcomer, as she only started acting in 2006. The characters they will be playing are named Komorov and Irina.

Fans of the Starz series Spartacus aren’t likely to have a hard time picturing Jai Courtney in an action role. The actor played the role of Varro in the premium cable drama, a gladiator who may have been the closest thing Spartacus had to a friend while enslaved in the house of Batiatus.

Skip Woods (The A-Team, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) penned the latest script, which Max Payne director John Moore will helm. The story involves perennial curmudgeon John McClane (Bruce Willis) preventing yet another terrorist threat, this time from behind enemy lines in Russia. According to a plot synopsis, Courtney’s character “is caught up in a daring prison escape of a rogue Russian leader, and father and son must work together to keep each other alive and keep the world safe for democracy.”

Following the news last month that the fifth installment of the Die Hard franchise, A Good Day To Die Hard, would include an adventure involving both John McClane and his son, a short list of actors appeared online suggesting what 20th Century Fox was looking for in a McClane Jr. According to the initial story, Ben Foster, Paul Dano, Aaron Paul and Milo Ventimiglia were all being looked at for the part.

Yesterday brought big news for the Die Hard franchise. In addition to giving the new movie a name (A Good Day To Die Hard) and a release date (February 14, 2013) plot details were revealed involving John McClane's wayward son who manages to get arrested in Moscow, Russia.

In addition to each movie in the Die Hard franchise getting a bit more ridiculous as time goes on, the titles have done the same. While it started normal enough with the first two movies - Die Hard and Die Hard 2 - the third movie got a little more creative, going with Die Hard: With a Vengeance.